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Speckled Eggs

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Made these blue speckled eggs inspired by this post on craftster. I hollowed out the eggs so they will last until next year, dyed them blue and used an old toothbrush to splatter brown acrylic paint on them. The only change I would have to the instructions posted is to dye your eggs before you blow them out as it is difficult to get enough water inside for them to sink to the bottom of the dye bath bowl.

I also made a quick bird’s nest with some ivy vines tied with monofilament. I think this will dry well and I can pull the leaves off and save for next year. Would make a nice little centerpiece. Enjoy your weekend!

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Easter Eggs

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Here are some of the eggs we made over the weekend. I mentioned these techniques in my post a few days ago. Pictured above are decoupage eggs. We just used a flower hole punch, patterned paper and school glue.

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Marbleized eggs. Made by dyeing the eggs, then rolling them around in a pan with dye of another color mixed with oil.

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Martha Stewart’s drying rack idea. I think that a cookie cooling rack would work just as well. You can see we used ric-rac on some of the eggs. Just wrap it around the egg and tie with pantyhose.

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Egg Ideas

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Aren’t these beautiful? Found these over on craftster. See the full post with instructions here.

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Or these, from Design Mom, posted here in April 2007.

Of course Martha Stewart seems to have the most comprehensive collection of egg ideas. See links below.

I’m going to try some ideas this week and post some photos. I’ve just asked my husband to buy pantyhose (for making the eggs pictured above) on his run to the grocery store. He’s thrilled about that.